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[Parham Doustdar <parham90 AT gmail.com>]

I agree. I'm not sure which TTS engines support it. Maybe, just like 
notification streams are supported in some servers, we can implement this 
feature for engines that support it?
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> On 8 Apr 2024, at 10:24, John Covici <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> 
> I know this might be contraversial, but, indexing would be very useful
> to me,  sometimes I read long buffers and when I stop the reading, the
> cursor is still where I started, so no real  way to do this adequately
> -- I would not mind if it were just down to the line, rather than
> individual words, but it would make emacspeak lots nicer for me.
> 
>> On Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:39:15 -0400,
>> "T.V Raman" (via emacspeak Mailing List) wrote:
>> 
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>> as a single call is that it ensures  atomicity i.e. all of the state
>> gets set at one shot from the perspective of the elisp layer, so you
>> hopefully never get TTS that has its state  partially set.
>> note that the other primary benefit of tts_sync_state
>> 
>> Robert Melton writes:
>>> On threading. It is all concurrent, lots of fun protecting of the state.
>>> 
>>> On language and voice, I was thinking of them as a tree, language/voice,
>>> as this is how Windows and MacOS seem to provide them.
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> Oh, one last thing. Should TTS Server implementations be returning a \n
>>> after command is complete, or is just returning nothing acceptable?
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Apr 5, 2024, at 14:01, T.V Raman <raman AT google.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> And do spend some time thinking of atomicity and multithreaded systems,
>>>> e.g. ask yourself the question "how many threads of execution are active
>>>> at any given time"; Hint: the answer isn't as simple as "just one
>>>> because my server doesn't use threads". > Raman--
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks so much, that clarifies a bunch. A few questions on the
>>>>> language / voice support.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Does the TTS server maintain an internal list and switch through
>>>>> it or does it send the list the lisp in a way I have missed?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Would it be useful to have a similar feature for voices, being
>>>>> first you pick right language, then you pick preferred voice
>>>>> then maybe it is stored in a defcustom and sent next time as
>>>>> (set_lang lang:voice t)
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Apr 5, 2024, at 13:10, T.V Raman <raman AT google.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If your TTS supports more than one language, the TTS API exposes these
>>>>>> as a list; these calls loop through the list (dectalk,espeak, outloud)
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Robert "robertmeta" Melton
>>>>> lists AT robertmelton.com
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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